Rachio

Rachio

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About this app

The Rachio Smart Sprinkler Controller changes the way you water. It makes running your sprinklers easy and convenient while saving you water and money. Rachio automatically creates a watering schedule that lowers your water bill and ensures the beautiful yard you want, while the mobile app gives you access to your sprinkler system from anywhere. Plus, Rachio is compatible with nearly any sized yard and smart home platform.

This is the companion app to the industry leading Rachio Smart Sprinkler Controller.

Ratings and reviews

mostly app and product are fine. But after trying, using, and talking with support the smart features aren't very smart. If they are right the weather source you can change only applies to the control not hose timer. So if you use both they may behave differently. also apparently the weather skip feature is not a rolling time, it only updated at midnight. so if you are watching at 1150p and it schedule to rain at 1205a, it won't skip. hope that's not really the case. still trying to adjust.

I love being able to test my system while walking around my property and being able to stop & start it from my phone to make adjustments. As well as being tied into my local weather to stop or run depending on my actual weather. Also being able to run the system even when you aren't home, for example if you're traveling and you see your home area may need more watering, you can activate your system from anywhere!

Overall, an excellent app and controller. The biggest problem with my 3e is, if the controller goes offline for several days, it stops watering, even though it's supposed to keep running the last saved schedule. This is made worse because, if the controller is connected to a wifi network with both the 2.4G and 5G wifi bands enabled on the same SSID, the controller can often have trouble selecting which band to use causing it to go offline until you reboot it. I would still buy it again.

What’s new

Check out what's in the most recent app release:

• Bug fixes and performance enhancements.